Reading Rotations

Reading Rotations StoryWorks Magazine Nov/Dec 2005
Non-Fiction Story: "The Great Flood of 1927"

Fiction Story: "Annie Guppy"
Play: "Zathura" Connect to the book Jumanji by reading it too and compare/contrast the two stories

Reading Rotations StoryWorks Magazine October 2005
Non-Fiction Story: "Into the Volcano"


Fiction Story: "Wind"--Deals with Hurricanes

Play: "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Read the Booklet: "Earth's History" from 3rd Grade science booklets



Reading Rotations StoryWorks Magazine September 2005
Non-Fiction Story: "Killer Croc"

Play: "Charlotte's Web"

Read Aloud Book: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Writing Lesson Ideas

Begin Empowering Writers Instruction

Teach students how to take boring sentences and create fantastic ones to replace it.

Math Lesson Concepts

⁰ Whole Number Concepts--Accelerated Math Objectives (1-32) 4th Grade Math Library
(standard & expanded forms, rounding, odd and even, read and write numbers, add and subtract numbers)
⁰ Money Unit--Accelerated Math Objectives (83-91) 4th Grade Math Library
⁰ Time, calendars, and thermometers--Accelerated Math Objectives (104-110) 4th Grade Math Library

Science topics

⁰Rocks and Minerals

Also combine in the Science text book to use during Reading Rotations to study the properties of rocks and minerals
Rock and Mineral Testing Lab with our "finds" from the field trip

Social Studies Topics

⁰ Regions of North Carolina




⁰ Native Americans of North Carolina

Field Trips

Thermal City Gem Mines to pan for minerals-in county field trip